Japanese Course 104 (Level 4)

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Suitable for those who have completed all levels up to 103 or who have completed 70 hours of recent face to face tuition. Your skills acquired throughout the year will be consolidated and furthered through exploring more sophisticated grammatical structures and vocabulary. This course will teach you to offer help to others, give directions and invite others to special occasions.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, participants should be able to:

Talk about their possessions.

Offer to help someone/accept or reject someone’s offer.

Give a reason for offering someone something, inviting someone to do something, or refusing someone’s invitation.

Talk about their weekend plans or travel plans, and state what they will do and in what order.

Talk about schedules in detail.

Ask to have something delivered by a specific means from a store or office.

Ask someone to do something for them.

Give directions to a taxi driver.

Talk about lengths of stays.

Ask about travel times.

Ask permissions to do something at someone’s house or at a store.

Grant or refuse permission, and give a reason for doing so.

Read and write vocabulary, using approximately 40 Kanji.

Read and write short sentences that includes vocabulary, using approximately 40 Kanji.

Content

This course covers the following topics:

Introduction to Kanji

Talking about what you own

Offering to help someone

Accepting or rejecting someone’s offer

Giving a reason for offering someone something, inviting someone to do something, or refusing someone’s invitation

Talking about weekend plans and travel plans: stating what you will do in what order, using the –te form of verbs

Talking about schedules in details

Asking to have something delivered by a specific means from a store or office

Asking someone to do something for you

Giving directions to a taxi driver

Talking about getting on and off means of transportation

Talking about departure and arrival times

Talking about length of stays

Asking about travel times

Asking permission to do something at someone’s house or at a store

Granting or refusing permission and giving a reason for doing so

Delivery

This course is delivered as a series of interactive workshops where active participation is encouraged.